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English to Chinese: EUTN General field: Bus/Financial Detailed field: Economics
Source text - English
EU TRADE NEWSLETTER
Weekly Digest
29-07-09
MARKET ACCESS
Annual report on US trade and investment barriers
The European Union and the United States share the largest bilateral trading partnership worldwide, with 33% of world trade in goods and 44% of world trade in services. The report focuses on some key trade barriers as well as measures that prevent EU exporters from tapping into the full potential of the US market. It notes some continuing concerns and highlights a number of new barriers introduced in 2008.
Press release
http://ec.europa.eu/trade/issues/sectoral/mk_access/pr270709_en.htm
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Negotiations for an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)
During the fifth round of talks held in Rabat/Morocco discussions focused on International Cooperation, Enforcement Practices and Institutional Issues. Discussions were also held on transparency matters, including providing information to stakeholders and the interested public.
Press release
http://ec.europa.eu/trade/issues/sectoral/intell_property/pr220709_en.htm
DISPUTE SETTLEMENT
EU requests WTO consultations with the Philippines over unfair taxation of spirits
Imported spirits including Spanish brandy and Scotch whisky can face taxes 10 to 50 times higher than those on domestic products, and exports to the Philippines have fallen significantly as a result. The EU has raised the issue repeatedly in recent years without success.
Press release
http://ec.europa.eu/trade/issues/respectrules/dispute/pr290709_en.htm
AFRICA CARIBBEAN PACIFIC
EU and Papua New Guinea sign trade and development agreement
The agreement focuses on trade in goods and includes important provisions on rules of origin for the fisheries sector. Under the agreement all imports from Papua New Guinea and Fiji will have immediate duty free quota free access to the European market (with short transition periods for rice and sugar).
Press release:
http://ec.europa.eu/trade/issues/bilateral/regions/acp/pr300709_en.htm
COMMISSIONER ASHTON ON...
...WTO dispute settlement with the Philippines
"This long-running problem has prevented EU exporters from competing fairly in the Philippine market, and has led to a sharp decrease in imports of European spirits. I hope that we can still find an amicable solution to this issue through the consultation process. "
...Economic Partnership Agreement signing with Papua New Guinea
"This agreement is an important step towards a strong and lasting EU-Pacific trade and development partnership. We have already seen how the initialling of the agreement has delivered results, with new investment flowing into the fisheries industry, supporting development in Papua New Guinea and creating jobs."
English to Chinese: Watch industry General field: Tech/Engineering
Source text - English Highly prized for its impeccable engineering and design principles, the tourbillon is one of the most valued complications of collector's watches and premium timepieces, says James Gurney.
There can be few inventions that still manage to fascinate and confuse in equal measure two centuries after their first appearance, but the tourbillon is one such innovation. The watch made little impact on the world for the first 170 years of its life but in recent years the tourbillon bug has bitten - and bitten hard.
Abraham-Louis Breguet invented the tourbillon (French for whirlwind) toward the end of the 18th century, patenting the design in 1801. The idea was to create a device to counter the effects of gravity on the movement of the balance wheel – pocket watches, of course, are usually kept upright. In the most simplistic terms, this meant that balances tended to swing faster down than up. Breguet’s solution was to reduce this error by allowing the entire escapement assembly (balance wheel, escapement and pallet fork) to rotate, thus cancelling out any “positional error”. Less error means greater precision - simple!
The complexity and cost of this solution meant that Breguet only used the tourbillon device on his most expensive watches. Nevertheless, the tourbillon’s complexity also made it desirable as a demonstration of the watchmaker’s skill and craft, and tourbillon pocket watches have continued to be made ever since. The advent of wristwatches saw watchmakers striving to miniaturize ideas developed in pocket watches and the first wristwatch-sized tourbillons appeared in 1948. Tourbillons thereafter remained something of a minority interest until Audemars Piguet produced the first series production tourbillon in 1986.
In the 1990s, nearly 200 years after this quality timepiece was invented, the tourbillon revolution finally took off. Following AP other manufactures began to produce tourbillons as part of their collections, Blancpain being one of the first to follow. But it was not the established manufactures who truly made the tourbillon the must-have watch it is today: it was the new boys, like Daniel Roth with his double faced tourbillon, Franck Muller (Cintrée Curvex, Imperial Tourbillon) and Gerald Genta, who popularised it.
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Translation - Chinese 以无暇的制造工艺以及设计理念著称的陀飞轮（tourbillon），是珍贵表品与顶级座钟收藏者最为珍视的复杂功能之一，James Gurney如是说。
English to Chinese: Journalism report General field: Art/Literary Detailed field: Journalism
Source text - English The supremely elegant Marchesa, who switched between Italian and flawless, unaccented, English, pooh-poohed my questions about the estate’s use of barriques, expensive oak barrels from France. “It is simply not true to say the barriques make wines taste the same,” she said. “In Bologna, the sangiovese grape makes Lambrusco, here it is Montesodi. Are they similar?” The dark juice of the sangiovese courses through Tuscany’s veins. It was so prized by the Romans that they named it after their supreme deity – Sanguis Jove, or Jupiter’s Blood.
Translation - Chinese 优雅脱俗的Marchesa夫人，交谈中不断在意大利语和流利且没有任何口音的英语之间随意切换，但在回答我为何庄园使用价格昂贵的法国橡木酒桶这一问题时，显得不屑一顾。她说：“要是说用法国橡木桶酿出的酒和使用其他酒桶没有什么分别，那绝对是错误的。在博洛尼亚，桑乔维塞葡萄酿出来的是Lambrusco葡萄酒，而在我们这里就是Montesodi葡萄酒。难道它们一样吗？桑乔维塞的暗红色汁液仿佛就是托斯卡纳血脉流动的鲜血。古罗马人极为赞誉这种葡萄酒，甚至以他们最高贵的神祗丘比特来命名，将其称为“Sangui Jove”，即丘比特之血。
English to Chinese: Economy General field: Bus/Financial Detailed field: Marketing
Source text - English Tools for success – in sales – are clear targets, strategic procedure and knowledge about the principles of communication. Selling means convincing, winning people for something, conveying knowledge without giving an educational impression, or simply being interesting
Translation - Chinese 对于销售行业，清晰明确的目标、讲求策略的步骤和有关沟通原则的知识是取得成功的必备工具。销售意味着使人信服、意味着赢得别人信任、意味着既要传播知识又不能给人留下说教的印象，或者简而言之使人产生兴趣。
English to Chinese: Tourism General field: Art/Literary Detailed field: Tourism & Travel
Source text - English Consistently voted the best ski resort in North America by various ski magazines, including an unprecedented 10th consecutive year by SKIING Magazine, and now set to host the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, Whistler, popular with celebrities, royalty, and powder hounds from around the world, is one of the best known little towns in BC.
Just 123 kilometres (76 miles), or two hours, north of Vancouver along the dramatically scenic Sea to Sky Highway, Whistler Village sits in a valley between Whistler and Blackcomb mountains.
Translation - Chinese 惠斯勒是不列颠哥伦比亚省最著名的小城之一，许多滑雪杂志一致将其选为北美最棒的滑雪度假胜地，《滑雪杂志》（SKIING Magazine）更史无前例地连续十年将其评为最佳滑雪胜地。惠斯勒历来深受世界各地的名流、王室成员和滑雪爱好者的青睐，还将在2010年举办冬奥会和残奥会。
Here i will briefly introduce my education background and working experience.
I graduated from East China Normal Uninversity in 2002, where I majored in English and got my BA. After graduation, I had worked as an English teacher in a secondary school for more than two years. Since 2005, I have been working as a translator for one translation company, during which time, I have been involved in many translation/localization projects for world famous enterprises,such as Panerai, Bulgari, HelloBC (the website of BC Tourism), Patek, Tiffany, TNT, Hercules, DSM, GM, ERCO and Pernod Ricard, as well as some leading PR firm, like Fleishman Hillard, Ruder Finn and Hill&Knowlton. With an extensive translation experience in Luxuries (especially in watch, jewellery and fashion), Tourism Economic, Sports, Wine, I'm looking forward to cooperating with you.
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